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Monday, 23 November 2009
What if Barack Obama believes surrender really is an option?
From The Anchoress, via Little Miss Attila, comes news which makes my already dour mood take a nose-dive:
A Tactical Surrender in Afghanistan?
I am not sure what to make of this, but my first gut-instinct is, "oh, please, don't appease."
It comes to our attention that the MEMRI Blog highlights an article from the Saudi _al-Watan_ in Arabic that — according to an Afghan source — the United States is talking to the Taliban seeking to trade control of 5 provinces in exchange for the cessation of attacks on US bases. MEMRI summarizes:
An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement's foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban missile attacks on U.S. bases.
Kunar province borders the Khyber Pass region where the majority of US and NATO supplies pass enroute from Pakistan. And the remaining four provinces constitute fully the southern 25% of Afghanistan's territory.
This, if true, is a disturbing development.
"Disturbing" doesn't begin to cover it.
If Obama is giving any thought at all to a cockamamie scheme like this, then he really does believe that surrender is an option. It's incomprehensible to me that an American president would consider putting his tail between his legs and running away.
Moreover, surrender in Afghanistan means those who died there gave their lives for nothing.
To a layperson like me, one question matters: did the president, who called Afghanistan "the war of necessity" mean it when he said -only weeks ago- that the war in Afghanistan was "crucial" to the safety of Americans, or was he blowing smoke, looking for the most expedient way to pull out of an action he appears to have no stomach to fight?
Of course he didn't mean it. Barack Obama only cares about Barack Obama. He means to see America humbled. Just as he bows before tyrants he hopes to see our ideals subjugated and our honor tarnished. He can't become President of Earth if the United States is the dominant world power.
Surrendering to the Taliban gives credence to al Qaeda's rational for attacking us — we brought it on ourselves and we deserve to be hit again. And again. And again.
That's why he's handing Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators a Manhattan soapbox from which to explain their "criticisms" of U.S. foreign policy. Criticisms which are largely shared by Obama and his acolytes.
Could this be why he's dithering? Does he intend to destroy this country by any means necessary, and he's going to sell us out to the Taliban because that's what they want too?
UPDATE 24 Nov 2009 18:37:
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul denies the reports of secret talks with the Taliban.
Early Tuesday morning, US Embassy spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden denied the veracity of the Sunday Saudi report.
"There is no truth to reports that the U.S. Embassy is engaging in secret talks with elements of the Taliban. Our position on the inclusion of Taliban and other fighters into Afghan society remains unchanged: we support the efforts of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghan to reintegrate fighters and other disaffected individuals into society, under the Afghan constitution. This process must be Afghan-led."
We take the US embassy in Kabul at its word. The Tuesday morning denial is the first we have seen in response to the anonymously Afghan-sourced al-Watan report.
Oh yes, by all means, let us take the U.S. embassy at its word.
No one who works for the Obama Administration would ever lie to us.
Posted at 16:04 by Chris Wysocki
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